Republic Act No. 12027 has recently taken effect. While allowing its optional usage in monolingual classrooms, the mother tongue is no longer used as a teaching medium from Kindergarten to Third...

Trigger Warning: This column may talk on toxicity and a few experiences on a mental illness – schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. In case some of these facts may trigger you, I suggest...

Of the more than 180 candidates who filed their certificates of candidacy for senator, many were deemed “nuisance” contenders, while others came from political dynasties, or were familiar...

When it comes to remembering our country’s history of struggle, most people’s memories seem to be selective, and rather short, including World War II. The  stories of Filipina  comfort women became...

Basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are considered to be entitled, often held to include the rights to life, liberty, equality, and fair trial, freedom from slavery and torture, and freedom...

Trigger Warning! This column talks about matters on mental health as an excuse, stigma, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. In case this is may affect your emotional or psychological capacity...

A newly-released study from the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Tobacco Control examined over 5,500 publicly-visible posts of e-cigarette brands in the Philippines between August 2022 and...

Despite  the enactment of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA)  or R.A. No. 8371  twenty seven  years ago, conflicting laws and policies have made the implementation of this law quite challenging...

It was on my birthday in 2021 when one of the Bersamins first called and offered me to run for Mayor. It took me a day to say Yes because while the position never daunted me, I still needed God’s...

Milk tea please. In a world that’s full of myriad things, how do you keep up with the times? How do you remain sane in a world that makes you insane? Actually, I myself experienced this. I...